Roman oculists' medicine stamps and collyria / [C.J.S. Thompson].

  • Thompson, C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel), 1862-1943
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[1920?]
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Credit: Roman oculists' medicine stamps and collyria / [C.J.S. Thompson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6. ... in fire,1 to his head [thou shaft put]. 7. ... thou shalt mix, cool, in cedar-oil (v. in curd) [thou shaft anoint]. 8. ... his head thou shalt wash, opium-stick . . . 9. ... thrown away . . . (?) and his head ... a frog 2 in curd thou shalt mix, anoint, [and he shall recover]. 11. ... [in] strong wine thou shalt mix, his head [bind]. No. 13. AM. 4, 6 (K. 8160), top broken. 1. ... hair of a muh-tul-bi,3 4 . . . , ulap kibti/ . . . 2. ... fir-gum, sumach, *liquidambar, kelp (?)... thou shalt heat and in a bandage on his temples thou shalt bind (them) [and he shall recover]. 4. . . . meerschaum,5 sulphur, kelp (?), muza-stone together [thou shalt bray, in] cedar-oil mix, in scarlet wool enclose, bind on his temples. 1 Cf. AM. 3, 5, 3. 2 ne.za.za must mean “ frog ”. Without an adjective, 12, 2, 5 ; 30, 8, 8, 9 ; 30, 13, 7, 8 ; 36, 1, 4, 16 ; “ yellow ” 8, 1, 13 (its gall) ; 37, 10, 6 ; 87, 1, 2 ; 88, 2, 16 ; 94, 3 r. 4 ; 103, 1, 6. Cf. SM. ii, 663, for eyes, the blood of a yellow frog ; 703, the same drug prevents hair growing. The tidal pools round Basrah are full of young frogs growing from tadpoles in mid-June. Cf. KAR. 204,15, Enuma ditto, ne . za . za sa lib ta,!eri ndri i-ba- . . . See Jastrow, PRSM. vii, 163. 3 mtjh . tul . bi : an animal, Boissier, Div. 29, 6; Doc. Ass. Ill, 6, etc.; Virolleaud, Bab. 1, 26. Its hair used (19, 2, ii, 4) ; in almond-oil anoint (96,4,9); its bone, in fumigation for ears (33, 1, 33). 4 ku.nik.ib.su.lal, apparently made up of two groups, ku.nik.ib = ulapu, and su.lal = kibtu “wheat ” (Hammy Getr. 62 ; cf. AM. 51, 10, 5). Bray with **ammi, sesame, human bones, sulphur, etc., as unguent (19, 2, ii, 7); cf. 29, 1, 3 (unguent, with 3 others) ; bind alone on temples, poultice, 20, 1, 34. Cf. 63, 2, 5 ; 94, 2, ii, 15. Fumigate, with various drugs, alkali, sulphur, bitumen, human bones, etc., 93, 1, 12 ; ears, with seed of tamarisk, * liquidambar, etc. (35, 1, 5 ; 38, 2 r. 2). Cf. 33, 1, 29, 30, 35; 34, 6, 6 ; 80, 6, 3 ; 99, 3, 18 r. 9, 12, 18 ; 103, 1, 6. (On tit ulapi “ mortar ”, see Thureau-Dangin, RA, 1914, 87.) 5 I take ru’ut ndri “ spittle of the river ” to be the same as meerschaum = magnesite, or magnesium silicate. It must be some definite earth, just as kibir ndri is sulphur. Meerschaum is said to be used as fuller’s earth in the Turkish Dominions {PC. xv, 63). The suggestion in Bostock, Pliny (xxxv, 53 ff.) is that silicates were more used in medicine in ancient times. Of the earths in Pliny, Chian earth is a cosmetic, Cimolite is an aluminous silicate “ a white chalk dissolving in water ”, there being two kinds of Cimolian earth (Pliny, xxxv, 57), used externally for tumours, etc. In CT. xiv, 9, K. 4373, r. v-vi, 4-7, it is included in the same group as sulphur and hdpu (twice). Does hdpu = Syr. “ wash ”, with reference to fuller’s earth ?